Extend-A-Family Waterloo Region
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 132784943RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,039,469) as filed with the CRA.
Extend-A-Family Waterloo Region is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $15.3M in revenue and $15M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $144K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 66 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Respite one to one support day program activities housing arrangements with a community family setting community development and friendship connecting and building.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15.3M | $15M | $14.6M | $4,700 | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $14M | $13.6M | $13.2M | $800 | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $12.9M | $12.6M | $12.1M | $1,858 | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $12.8M | $12.3M | $12M | $1,268 | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $12.1M | $12.4M | $12M | $13K | — | $740K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $144K from 9 charities:
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$85K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$16K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,149
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$272
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$35
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions66
- Total compensation, all staff$5.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adnan Ali (director); Rodney Gotez (treasurer); Devon Fernandes (chair); Angela Riddell (director); Christopher Dell (director); Elizabeth Houston (director); Malika Ismaili (director); Sigrid Janus (director); Daisy Martin (vice-chair); Melissa Quarrie (director); Marissa Tabong (director); Ryan Voisin (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Extend-A-Family Waterloo Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132784943RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.